Tobacco: The Nasty Weed
As a Sunday-School child, I was taught to chant, "Tobacco is a nasty weed, and from the devil it doth proceed. It robs your pockets, stinks your clothes, and makes a smokestack out of your nose." This early, if somewhat primitive, version of [... more]
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Spiritual Tattoo
Say "body modifications" and most people think of tattoos and piercings. They associate these mainly with the urban primitives of the 1980s to today and with primitive tribes. In fact, as this fascinating book shows, body mods have been on the . [... more]
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Elenore Smith Bowen
A vivid and dramatic account of the experiences of an American anthropologist who lived with a primitive bush tribe in Africa. An Anthropological Novel Return to Laughter Elenore Smith Bowen [... more]
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Daniel Pinchbeck
A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic ... [... more]
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." -- The New York Times Book Review In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari ... [... more]
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William Golding
William Golding's classic novel of primitive savagery and survival is one of the most vividly realized and riveting works in modern fiction. The tale begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of English school boys, aged six to twelve on an ... [... more]
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Bruce Thomas
This is the only independent biography of Bruce Lee, and it is complete in terms of both the martial arts and the movies. A complete overview of all aspects of combat, from the primitive to the cutting-edge, Immortal Combat uses Bruce Lee's life ... [... more]
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The Sexual Life of Savages
 The original case-study: This is considered the first field case-study ever done in the field of Anthropology. With that being said, I do not know if you can criticize the first of it's kind. I personally found it too old to be enjoyable and would only [... more]
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A Hut of One's Own: Life Outside the Circle of Architecture
From Amazon.com: Subtitled Life Outside the Circle of Architecture, this book takes "a stroll through the borderlands that surround architecture" to bestow a quiet nobility on huts, shacks, shanties, teahouses, follies, and casitas. Writer Ann [... more]
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Spears Of Twilight, The
From Amazon.com: A trained ethnographer, you go tramping through the rain forest jungle in search of an isolated tribe. They welcome you, and you find that they live with an idealistic individualism and freedom only dreamed of by the staunchest [... more]
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Makuna
Author: Kaj Arhem Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 305 EAN: 9781588340924 ISBN: 1588340929 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: 2003-11-17 [... more]
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Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy
Healing Really Does Make Our Hearts Happy: Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy is a beautifully written and photographed book of the Jul'hoansi people of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. Not only does the book give an excellent description of the [... more]
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